Talk:verbier

According to the Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Française by Alain Rey, verbier is not from verbe but from Picardian verbler "warble, speak in singsong" &larr; Frankish *werbilon "whirl, swirl". The connection to verbe and verbeux is folk etymology. Cf Language Log, 2008-10-20. The suffix -ier doesn't fit here as it is defined, because verbier isn't a noun or adjective.--94.222.219.110 12:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion
Doesn't seem to exist. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have air (that is, nothing) for this. All the cites for verbier are in fact for Verbier (a town), verbiant is attested in Dutch and maybe in German. Verbiée, verbiées and verbiés get zip. All the hits for verbiais are actually for ad-verbiais, the plural in Portuguese of . So in other words, I think it's just a complete error and I have nothing at all. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:53, 4 February 2011 (UTC)